The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1887-08-13

DRY. Inen their must De millions OF
souls In heaven who know ~Corona-
tion." and "Antioch." and AMOUNT
Plsgah," and "Dld Hundred" The
leader of the eternal orchestra need
only once tap his baton and all heaven
will be ready for the hallelnjah.
Again, remark that those Of our
departed Christian friends who In this
world had very strong military spirit
are now In armies celestial and out on
bloodless battle. There are hundreds
of people born soldiers. They can not
help II. They belong 10 regiments in
time Of peace. They can not hear a
drum or fife without trying 10 keep
step to the music They are Chris
tians. and when they fight they fight
on the right side. Now when these,
our Christian friends who had natural
and powerful military spirit. entered
heaven they entered the celestial army.
But what are our mathematical
friends to do in the next world They
found their Joy and their delight Ia
mathematics. There was more poetry
for them In Euclid than in John Mil
ton. They were as passionateIy fond
of mathematics as Plato, who wrote
over his door: sLet no one enter here
who Is not acquainted with geometry"
What are they doing nowg They are
busy with figures yet. No place in all
the universe like heaven for figures.
Numbers infinite, distances infinite,
calculations infinite. The didatic DIR.
Dick said he really thought that the
redeemed In heavens spent some of their
time with the higher branches of
mathematics.
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing nowg
Exploring yet, but with lightning To-
comotion, with vision microscopic and
telescope at the same time. A CONT
nent at glance. A world in second.
A planetary system in day
What are our departed friends who
found their chief JOY in study doing
nowg Studying yet, but instead of a
few thousand volumes on few
shelves, all the volumes of the uni
verse open before them geologic, or
nithologic, conchologic, botanic, astro-
nomic, philosophic. No more need OF
Leyden. jars, or yoltaic piles, or cleo
trio batteries, standing as they do face
TO face with the facts of the universe.
What are the historians doing now?
Studying history yet but not the his.
terry OF few centuries Of our planet
only, but the history of the eternlties
whole millenniums before Keno
phon, or Herodotus, or Moses. or
Adam was born. History OF one
world history OF all worlds.
What are our depa ted astronomers
DOING Studying astronomy yet, but
not through the dull lens of earthly
observatory, but with one stroke OF
wing going right out TO Jupiter, and
Mars, and Mercury. and Saturn, and
orion, and the Plelades overtaking
and passing swiftest comet in their
flight Herschel died Christian.
Have you any doubt about what Her
schel Is doing? Isaac Newton died
Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Isaac Newton is doings Joseph
Henry died Christian Have you any
doubt about what Joseph Henry is
DOING They were in discussion, all
these astronomers Of earth, about what
the aurora borealis was, and none OF
them could guess. They know now;
they have been out there 10 see for
themselves.
What are Our departed Christian
chemists doingg Following out their
own science, following out and follow
ing out forever. Since they died they
have solved 10000 questions which
puzzled the earthly laboratory. They
stand on the other side of the thin wall
Of electricity, the wall that
seems to divide the physical from the
spiritual world, the thin wall of cleo
tricity, so thin the wall that ever and
anon IL seems TO be almost broken
through broken through from our
side by telephone and telegraphic APP
paratus. broken through from the
other side by strange influences which
men in their ignorance call spiritual
istic manifestations. All that matter
cleared up.
But what are the men OF the law,
who in this world found their chief
Joy in the legal professionalism are
they doing now? studying law in a
universe where everything is controlled
by law from flight OF humming bird 10
flight of world-law, not dry and hard
and drudging, but righteous and
magnificent law, before which man
and cherub and seraph and archangel
and God himself bow. The chain of
law long enough to wind around the
immensities and inhnity and eternity.